I was digging through my iPhone notes and found this quote that I had scribbled in there in May 2008:
“Weak bonds give you novelty”
Andrew McAfee said this at an Oracle/BEA conference I attended in Chicago. Strong bonds are people who you have a deep connection with and are usually like-minded and have similar experiences. People you don’t have have a close link with – weak bonds – are likely to provide new perspectives, opinions, and ideas.
I think that Twitter allows us to discover and build weak bonds extremely well, better than other social networking tools.